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UNITED ARTISTS v. BD. OF CENSORS

[No. 40, October Term, 1956 (Adv.)]

210 Md. 586 (1956)

124 A.2d 292

UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION ET AL. v. MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF CENSORS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 13, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin G. Allen and William L. Marbury, with whom were Piper & Marbury on the brief, for appellants.

C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, with whom was Norman P. Ramsey, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from an order of the Baltimore City Court affirming an order of the Maryland State Board of Censors eliminating a scene from the motion picture named "The Man with the Golden Arm." The appeal was taken by United Artists Corporation, the distributor of the film, and Carlyle Productions, Inc., the producer.

The original Act providing for censorship of motion pictures in Maryland was passed by...

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